Praxic Age

First Appearance and Context

The term appears in a historical note delivered during the liturgical explanation of the Hylaean Anathem at a math’s central service. In that account, the aut was said to have fallen into disuse during the Dispersal to the New Periklynes and the Praxic Age that followed, before being revived after the Terrible Events and the Reconstitution. It is also used in The Dictionary (4th edition, A.R. 3000) when dating people, language stages, or senses—for example, an entry on Saunt Proc places him in the “late Praxic Age,” and another entry labels one numbered sense of “Liaison” as a “Late Praxic Age” usage.

Within the Hylaean Way at the Unarian math, future exhibit space is noted for later periods including the rise of the Mystagogues, the Rebirth, the Praxic Age, and the Harbingers and the Terrible Events—placing the Praxic Age after the Rebirth in that sequence.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Period label within the Mathic World: used in teaching and reference to divide eras and to frame changes in practices and institutions.
• Liturgy and practice: presented as a span when the Hylaean Anathem was not practiced; after upheavals culminating in the Terrible Events, observance is described as revived following the Reconstitution.
• Linguistic usage: entries in The Dictionary apply Praxic period tags to forms of Orth (e.g., “Praxic Orth,” “late Praxic Orth”) and date figures (e.g., late Praxic references for Saunt Proc) and senses (e.g., a “Late Praxic Age” usage note under “Liaison”). A separate entry for “Bulshytt” dates one sense to Fluccish of the late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution, and notes that a Halikaarnian order applied the term to speech from Praxic Age commercial and political institutions. The entry for “Calca” marks a sense as “in Praxic and later Orth,” describing a long, technical aside moved out of the main argument.
• Theoretical advances: early in this era, Saunt Hemn developed “Hemn spaces” (configuration spaces), a general framework cited by avout when shifting from coordinate lists to orbital elements in explanations of motion.
• Technical literature and praxis: cited by avout as the era of applied texts such as “a Praxic Age book on space warfare”; in one discussion this is used to illustrate that plane change maneuvers in orbital mechanics are energetically expensive.

Relationships (as relevant)

• Temporal placement (as presented so far): follows the Dispersal to the New Periklynes and the Rebirth; precedes the Harbingers and the Terrible Events; the Reconstitution marks the renewed era that follows.
• Post‑Praxic constraints: later accounts summarize reforms that limited certain praxes and segregated tolerated syntactic‑device subsystems under the care of the Ita where great clocks required them.

Descriptions/Characteristics (as relevant)

• Industrial texture: narrative descriptions associate mid‑period settings with cheap steel construction, rail‑borne heat engines, oversized traveling cranes, and cast‑iron machine foundations. Later in the period, standardized steel shipping boxes are noted as common containers repurposed in older compounds.
• Environmental legacy: avout remarks suggest that since this era the atmosphere no longer shields against certain external influences, making solar activity a practical concern in some discussions.

Current Status/Location

A historical designation invoked in teaching, liturgy, and reference works; precise dating, scope, and defining institutions remain to be detailed in the material available so far.